There's a fascinating converse with Brian Paddick in the today. I can't quite decide how credible a candidate for London Mayor he will be. On the one transfer he's very adept at getting publicity something a LibDem candidate often finds difficult. But on the other transfer desire his old impress Sir Ian Blair. Paddick seems to undergo a character damage which enables him to hit the self destruct add rather too easily. There is no doubt that Paddick will be the strongest LibDem challenger yet but it ordain be interesting to see whether he targets Boris or Ken Livingstone in his attacks. From a Tory viewpoint. Boris needs to mop up Paddick's back up preferences in order to sweep past Livingstone in the second round so evaluate Boris to alter some gentle wooing noises to Paddick and his supporters as the election draws nearer. Much has been written about Boris's alleged inactivity in recent weeks. The news section of his website has had one entry since the end of September. There hasn't been a touch release posted since his race open in early September. It is not suprising that eyebrows are being raised. A candidate for a very visible position like this does need to maintain some sort of consistent profile but the period between now and Christmas should be spent becoming an authority on the issues. The race won't get going until January so there doesn't need to be a constant stream of media and policy announcements at the moment. But with Paddick now in the field. Boris ordain certainly need to become rather more visible than he has been up to now.
What does everyone mean by this. "the campaign won't get started til January"? In my Association we started the race for the 2008 council elections the Saturday after this year's. In London the elections are four years apart so starting four months before isn't excusable.
Boris has a real chance of winning but he ordain have to do his homework. He won’t win the election on the issue of “Bendy Buses” alone. His contend on the “Bendy Buses” was based on nostalgia for “The Routemaster” when it would undergo been better to locate it on the fact that it is easy to dodge fares on the “Bendy Buses” and they are supposedly unsafe. I have used London buses and the tube a lot in the measure few years mainly because driving into London is so difficult these days. I suggest that Boris gets off his ride and starts using public transport for a while. He will “choose up” a lot of problems simply by doing this.
Why should Boris undergo to be "spurred into challenge"? He's declared his candidacy for mayor of one of the biggest and richest cities in the world. Perhaps he thought his mere announcement would advance others into challenge on his behalf. He has a reputation for laziness.
Oh Iain no excuses please this is the major hiatus in the Boris race feed. He did only get busy for a few days either side of the selection. Otherwise he's been nowhere. He said in he would spend: of measure on the job. But his place was deserted between declaring and late in the selection and now again between selection and today's date. If Boris doesn't get work and Paddick goes law and order and fairly alter go he could do remarkably well. Perhaps not quite enough to be the one getting Boris' transfers but Boris clearly couldn't give a manipulate's about this job and that is communicating itself to the electorate. Cameron must be at this feckless and disengaged attitude. Incidentally Suz communicate that Paddick's fellow on the Lib Dem shortlist were victims of (a) tokenism and (b) being set up. The Lib are change surface making the Tories be good on Equality.
I would create by mental act that Boris' handlers are keeping him come up out of the way so that he can 'hit the books up' on the 'isshews' and decrease the number of inevitable gaffes to an amusing minimum. I do evaluate that his biggest problem despite his legendary intelligence and cranial capacity ordain be being taken seriously as a candidate; so he does be to change some choose of personality displace so that people see and recognise 'serious Bozza' and that he has a credible raft of policies for London. He ordain need much more than he displayed when running for the candidacy. That being said if he does his homework and knuckles down to be a serious candidate he could be a good mayor and will certainly present Londoners with a diametrically alternative option to Red Ken who has change state so identified with the office of mayor as to bealmost apolotical in party label terms. I evaluate we can reject the Lib Dem effort out of transfer. They are not a credible force in London they have a candidate riddled with character and professional flaws (how many ethnic minority voter is going to vote for an ex-policeman when the Met has proved so incomopetent ineffective and deeply unpopular among those sections of the population)?Best thing to do? Abolish the office of mayor which is completely unecessary deeply costly and ineffective and the pathetic GLA (ditto on all counts) and return the huge costs of both to the hard-pressed London council tax payer. Mrs Thatcher abolished the old GLC for good reasons. It makes comprehend: ergo it'll never come about.
Boris has no come about of winning! Boris reminds me of David Niven's description of Errol Flynn. 'There was only one thing you could be sure of he'd always let you drink' Man with process of 'Fanny Rats' not to be trusted.
As a Tory and Boris fan. I can't say I've been impressed. The Routemaster race is pretty hopeless. That horse has bolted. Bendy buses are good for passenger loading and safety bad for revenue collection and bad for other road users. But the money has been spent. They are a fact of life move on. Boris gives the impression that he has never actually been on a bendy bus. Not all that helpful really.
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